266 SYSTEMS OF CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY 



the Table, whose system of relationship is founded either upon common principles 

 of discrimination and classification, or, in their incomplete state, show such affinities 

 therewith as render probable their possession of the same system. Upon this basis 

 they have been constituted into a family. The sufficiency of this system to sustain 

 the conclusion of their genetic connection will elsewhere be further considered. It 

 remains to present the system of the Eskimo, which is of such a character as to 

 exclude this people from the Ganowanian connection, and, after that, to take up 

 the systems of the Eastern Asiatic nations. 



